Seems to me that the sort of economic "growth" we have experienced
under capitalism--in China as in the US--is splendidly imaged by the
title "Rake's Progress."
Economic progress was not my choice of words. Note that I put the
word "progress" in [ironic] quotation marks. I don't, however,
eschew small-p progress as a synonym for "better than this," as
distinct from the triumphal capital-p March of Progress. But you
already knew that.
Sorry; I misread your second sentence as implying that the term
could still be meaningful if it was re-purposed.
Would progress occur if we had a much more humble family of meanings
conveyed by the term progress? It seems to be a term lots of people
would be loathe to consign to the dustbin.
Shane Mage
"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce
qu'on a apporté."
Bardo Thodol
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